Language | Ancient North Arabian » Oasis North Arabian » Dadanitic |
Alphabet | Ancient North Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Incision |
Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
The inscription is surrounded by a cartouche on the right side. Note that here and in AH 070, the preposition (without a pronominal suffix) has the less common form, ʿl, whereas it occurs as ʿly elsewhere at al-ʿUḏayb (U 059, U 071, U 126, AH 069, AH 075, AH 079, AH 089, AH 107), see Macdonald. Line 5. The carver accidentally used the 3rd person plural rather than the 3rd person singular pronominal suffix here, but returns to the singular. For discussion, see Déroche. For the place name, see Hidalgo-Chacón Díez. |
1-2 | Abū l-Ḥasan reads ʾṭll h-ṭll for ʾẓll h-ẓll. |
English | |
1 Llt perfor- 2 med the ẓll-ceremony for ḏ-Ġbt 3 for that which belongs to them 4 at Bdr and so favour him. |
For other translations and commentaries see the bibliography. |
Stiehl 1971: 31-32 (D 03), pls 36 and 37 | Stiehl, Ruth 1971. Neue liḥyānische Inschriften aus al-‛Uḏaib. Pages 3-40 in Altheim, Franz and Stiehl, Ruth (ed.). Christentum am Roten Meer I. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter. |
al-Qudra 1993: 25 (L 036) | al-Qudra, Ḥusayn M. 1993. Dirāsa muʿǧamīya li-ʾalfāẓ an-nuqūš al-liḥyānīya fī ʾiṭār al-luġāt as-sāmīya al-ǧanūbīya. (MA). |
Abū l-Ḥasan 1418/1997: 93-95 (AH 017), pl. 3 (facsimile) | Abū l-Ḥasan, Ḥusayn 1418/1997. Qirāʾa li-kitābāt liḥyānīya min ǧabal ʿIkma bi-minṭaqat al-ʿUlā. ar-Riyāḍ: maktabat al-malik Fahd al-waṭanīya. |
Sima 1999c: 24 (U 073), pl. 18a, 18b, 19a and 28a | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
Farès-Drappeau 2005: 209 (D 127) | Farès-Drappeau, Saba 2005. Dédan et Liḥyân. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe-IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Mediterranée, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée; J. Pouilloux. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-ʿUlā |
Ancient site | Ddn |
Geographical area | Ḥijāz |
Country | Saudi Arabia |
Notes | The inscription is incised on one of the rock faces in the gorge al-ʿUḏayb (Ǧabal ʿIkmah). It is below U 074 and to the left of U 075, and there is a brief, unreadable, text above the end of line 1. It has a border along the top and down its right side. |
Link to site record |
Stiehl 1971: 31-32 (D 03), pls 36 and 37 | Stiehl, Ruth 1971. Neue liḥyānische Inschriften aus al-‛Uḏaib. Pages 3-40 in Altheim, Franz and Stiehl, Ruth (ed.). Christentum am Roten Meer I. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter. |
al-Qudra 1993: 25 (L 036) | al-Qudra, Ḥusayn M. 1993. Dirāsa muʿǧamīya li-ʾalfāẓ an-nuqūš al-liḥyānīya fī ʾiṭār al-luġāt as-sāmīya al-ǧanūbīya. (MA). |
Abū l-Ḥasan 1418/1997: 93-95 (AH 017), pl. 3 (facsimile) | Abū l-Ḥasan, Ḥusayn 1418/1997. Qirāʾa li-kitābāt liḥyānīya min ǧabal ʿIkma bi-minṭaqat al-ʿUlā. ar-Riyāḍ: maktabat al-malik Fahd al-waṭanīya. |
Sima 1999c: 24 (U 073), pls 18a, 18b, 19a and 28a | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
Macdonald 2004: 519 §4.3.5.3 | Macdonald, Michael C.A. 2004. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 488-533 in Roger D. Woodard (ed.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
Farès-Drappeau 2005: 209 (D 127) | Farès-Drappeau, Saba 2005. Dédan et Liḥyân. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe-IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Mediterranée, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée; J. Pouilloux. |
Déroche 1987: 108, 238 | Déroche, François 1987. Recherches sur l’oasis de Dedan/Al-‘Ulā. (2 Mikrofiches), (PhD). |
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014 | Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, María del Carmen 2014. Place Names in the Dadanitic Inscriptions of al-'Uḏayb. Adūmātū, 30: 15-30. |